Book: AE = McKibben, Bill, editor. American Earth: Nature Writing Since Thoreau, Library of America, 2008.

Readings:

• Thoreau, "Huckleberries" AE pp. 26-36
• Catlin, "Letters and Notes" AE pp. 37-45
• Sigourney, "Fallen Forests" AE pp. 46-47
• Cooper, "Rural Hours" AE pp. 48-58
• Guthrie, "This Land" pp. 258-59
• Whitman, Leaves of Grass, AE pp. 63-70
• Muir, "Thousand Mile Walk" AE pp. 85-89
• Muir, "My First Summer" AE pp. 98-104
• Muir, "Hetch Hetchy Valley" AE pp. 104-18
• Pinchot, "Prosperity" AE pp. 173-80
• Olmstead, "Central Park" AE pp. 120-25
• Burroughs, "The Art of Seeing Things" AE pp. 146-59
• Burroughs, "Nature Near Home" AE pp. 168-71
• Marshall, "Wintertrip into New Country" AE pp. 225-34
• Beston, "Orion Rises from the Dunes" AE pp. 205-08